Bus Stop

Cannon Beach, Oregon

Upon Reflection

In honor of the Black and White Weekend, just a couple of attractive confusions noted in Portland.

Pay no attention to the man behind the plywood

Spotted this intriguing shot while walking across Portland's Steel Bridge. Captions, anyone?

Fields Notes of a Square Spotter

Always gladdened by a splotch of color on grey pavement, I spotted these gaudy quadrilaterals of an evening in downtown Portland, Oregon. Slightly fotoshopped for a painterly patina, just because.

The hatch

Green for go 

Distressed dumpster

Deep Subject

Ups and downs in Portland, Oregon.

End of the Petroleum Age Pt. IV

In oblique honor of this week's Sepia Saturday theme of Bibles...

I recently spent a night in Long Beach, Washington ("World's Longest Beach," a dubious distinction). On the way out of town I happened to cast my eyes to the left as we passed a defunct Union 76 fueling station and I saw to my astonishment these frescoed gas tanks. I reckon you might call these "Gas Stations of the Cross."

Here they are in detail. The juxtaposition of abandoned petroleum infrastructure and Christian symbology blows my mind.

Annunciation

Baptism

Crucifixion

Ascendancy